Description: State's over-85 population is large and increasing rapidly. Elderly woman using walker. Interior Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged. Elsie Frank. Senior citizens playing bingo.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/23/1990
Description: Senior citizens meet in Peabody to ask for help in keeping Medex rates affordable so they will be able to continue health care coverage. Audience of elderly people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1990
Description: Rep. John McDonough proposes restructuring Medicaid eligibility such that elders be required to count value of home in their assets. McDonough on phone at his desk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1990
Description: Rep. William Galvin and Joe Malone vie for state treasurer with similar positions. Malone campaigns on the street and in offices. Galvin shakes hands with elderly women. Galvin in House chamber.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1990
Description: Elderly people tend urban garden in Highland Park. Asians cultivate South End community garden. Planting seeds, tilling soil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/11/1990
Description: William Weld's last-minute campaigning includes speaking to senior citizens and marching through throngs at Downtown Crossing, shaking hands everywhere.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/05/1990
Description: William Weld announces cabinet appointments: Gloria Larson as secretary of environmental affairs, Franklin Ollivierre as secretary of elder affairs; also David Place as head of judicial nominating council.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/19/1990
Description: Worcester police endorse John Silber for governor. Silber says it is common sense to ration health care for elderly. Shakes hands with officers. Comments on death penalty and infant mortality.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/18/1990